Greed and fear reign in Oz

We will see massive unemployment and under employment and it will hit male full-time workers the hardest. The recessions of the 1980s, 1990s and the GFC saw the percentage of men working full-time collapse.

Much of the media has lived under the delusion that the unemployment rate was five or six per cent. The ABS's ancient methodology is akin to counting on an abacus. I expect real unemployment rates of around 12-15 per cent.

Quality of the faces in the street

They say radical change shows the true character of a people. The Australian people are united in food hoarding.

They'll put up with dodgy private providers charging their kids thousands of dollars for scam qualifications. They tolerate being under paid millions of dollars in wages. They'll eventually forget that the banks and major financial institutions stole money from their accounts.

Shopping carts for a family of four are filled to the brim with toilet paper (why?), hand sanitiser, cans of food and more. The weekly shop has blown out from $250 to $500.00. They're pushing old people out of the way to make sure they get the last toilet roll, the last can of tomato soup, etc.

Their pea brains don't compute the fact that you also want other people to use soap and hand sanitiser as well.

They're even stealing hand sanitisers from hospital. But damn the torpedos, damn the calls for restraint, to hell with everyone else, it's you and me and the kids, baby.

I still get teary when I hear the Last Post played at Anzac Cove or at the MCG on Anzac Day. I think of members of my family who fought the Japanese in PNG or flew bombers over Europe to defeat the Nazis. To be honest, I think how easy I've got it.

But I'll be damned if I can equate the values, ethics and morality with those men and women with the greedy golems, who prowl our supermarkets and corner shops.

They have not only taken food out of the mouths of the elderly and the infirm but they have stripped the nation's chemist shelves of children's medications such as Panadol, Nurofen and asthma medicines, just as the cold and flu season begins.

This has sparked fears young children may wind up in emergency departments, creating further burdens on the health system.